School desk



Jan. 17, 1933.

P. 1.. a. TAYLOR SCHOOL DESK Filed Jan. 28, 1951 RL.B.T0 lar INV NTOI Patented Jan. 17, I933 PLEASANT I. .'B. TAYLOR, OF BOONEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL DESK Application filed January 28, 1931.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the furniture art and more particularly to school desks having swingably connected seats.

One of the principal objects of the invention consists of an adjustable means located in the path of movement of the seat for qualifying the angularity thereof.

More specifically stated the seat is provided with a swinging mounting to permit more acute or finer adjustment of the seat from its point of connection with the adjustable means.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention further consists of the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing?- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view taken through the present invention.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the invention.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the invention.

Referring to the drawing in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference characters 10 and 11 indicate complemental standards or legs supporting a shelf 12 and top 13 in the usual manner. Base plates 14 are carried upon the lowermost portions of the standards or legs 10 and 11 to secure the desk against accidental displacement upon a floor surface.

A seat back 15 is carried upon the forward side edges of the standards 10 and 11 and forms one wall of a book or stationery compartment between the shelf 12 and top 13. A brace member 16 is carried between the inner sides of-the standards 10 and 11.

Leg members 18, upstanding from and having pivotal connection with the extended portions of the base plates 14, support a bolt member 19 between the uppermost ends thereof for rockingly mounting a seat 20 thereon. Extensions 21, carried by and rearwardly projecting from the seat, are projected beneath the brace member 16 for con- 50 tacting engagement with abutments 22 lo- Serial No. 511,911.

cated in the path of movement thereof. Bolt members 23, are employed for the purpose of securing the abutments 22 against accidental displacement upon the inner sides of the standards 10 and 11.

I provide adjusting bars 24 having, pivotal connection, as at 25, with the legs 18 and adjustable connection with bolt members 26 carried by the standards 10 and 11. The adjusting bars 24 are provided with elongated slots 27 for the accommodation of the bolt shanks 26 whereby the seat in and of itself may be shifted with the legs 18 rearwardly or forwardly to qualify or otherwise alter the points of contact between the extensions 21 and the abutments 22.

From the foregoing it will be noted that the seat may be raised and lowered in a horizontal plane as well as tilted to effect the desired adjustment found most comfortable to the individual occupant.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within thescope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

A desk comprising a base, standards mounted thereon and supporting a seat back, abutment blocks mounted upon the standards, leg members pivoted to the base, a seat pivoted to the leg members and having an extension adaptedto engage the abutment blocks and bars pivotally connected with the intermediate portions of the legs, said bars adapted to be adjusted transversely across the standards when the legs are swung upon said base pivots and means for fixing the bars at adjusted position to the standards.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

PLEASANT L. B. TAYLOR. 

